Steve Brooks, Steve Cham

Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland

Sixth Edition
Illustrator: Lewington, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fully updated and expanded edition of the essential field guide to Odonata, featuring unrivalled full-colour artwork of all 58 species.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• 6th edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781399418126
• ISBN-10: 1399418122
• Artikelnr.: 74201185

Autorenporträt

Steve Brooks became fascinated by dragonflies when he was young, and pursued this interest in his career as a specialist in freshwater insects and environmental change at the Natural History Museum in London. He has published 281 scientific papers and book chapters, many of them on dragonflies, and five books, including a New Naturalist volume. Steve is a founder member of the British Dragonfly Society (BDS), a former editor of the Journal of the British Dragonfly Society, and served on the BDS Conservation Committee. He is Associate Editor of Odonatologica.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Life history
Distribution
Dragonfly habitats
Dragonflies and the law
Regional guides
Identification
Introduction to the families
Key to dragonfly larvae
Species descriptions
ZYGOPTERA DAMSELFLIES
Calopterygidae Demoiselles
Lestidae Emerald damselflies
Platycnemididae White-legged damselflies
Coenagrionidae Red damselflies and blue damselflies
ANISOPTERA DRAGONFLIES
Aeshnidae Hawker dragonflies
Gomphidae Club-tailed dragonflies
Cordulegastridae Golden-ringed dragonflies
Corduliidae Emerald dragonflies
Libellulidae Chaser, skimmer and darter dragonflies
Further reading
Addresses
Checklist of Odonata of Great Britain and Ireland
Index